My Nomination--My Replies--Delay in Holding the Ohio State
Convention--My Interview with Garfield--Resolution of the State
Convention in My Favor--National Convention at Chicago, on June 2,
1880--Fatal Move of Nine Ohio Delegates for Blaine--Final Nomination
of Garfield--Congratulations--Letter to Governor Foster and to
Garfield--Wade Hampton and the "Ku-Klux Klan."

CHAPTER XLI.
MY LAST YEAR IN THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.
Opening of the 1880 Campaign in Cincinnati--My First Speech Arraigned
as "Bitterly Partisan"--Letter from Garfield Regarding the Maine
Election--Ohio Thought to Be in Doubt--Many Requests for Speeches
--Republican Ticket Elected in Ohio and Indiana--A Strange Warning
from Detroit Threatening Garfield with Assassination--The Latter's
Reply--My Doubts About Remaining in the Treasury Department or
Making an Effort for the Senate--Letter to Dalzell--Last Annual
Report to Congress in December, 1880--Recommendations Regarding
Surplus Revenue, Compulsory Coinage of the Silver Dollar, the
Tariff, etc.--Bills Acted Upon by Congress.

CHAPTER XLII.
ELECTED TO THE SENATE FOR THE FOURTH TIME.
Blaine Appointed Secretary of State--Withdrawal of Governor Foster
as a Senatorial Candidate--I Am Again Elected to My Old Position
to Succeed Allen G. Thurman--My Visit to Columbus to Return Thanks
to the Legislature--Address to Boston Merchants on Finances--Windom
Recommended to Succeed Me as Secretary of the Treasury--Personal
Characteristics of Garfield--How He Differed from President Hayes
--The Latter's Successful Administration--My One Day out of Office
in Over Forty Years--Long Animosity of Don Piatt and His Change of
Opinion in 1881--Mahone's Power in the Senate--Windom's Success in
the Treasury--The Conkling-Platt Controversy with the President
Over New York Appointments.

CHAPTER XLIII.
ASSASSINATION OF GARFIELD AND EVENTS FOLLOWING.
I Return to Mansfield for a Brief Period of Rest--Selected as
Presiding Officer of the Ohio State Convention--My Address to the
Delegates Indorsing Garfield and Governor Foster--Kenyon College
Confers on Me the Degree of Doctor of Laws--News of the Assassination
of the President--How He Differed from Blaine--Visit of General
Sherman--Reception by Old Soldiers--My Trip to Yellowstone Park--
Speechmaking at Salt Lake City--Visit to Virginia City--Placer
Mining in Montana--The Western Hunter Who Was Lost in a "St. Louis
Canon"--Sunday in Yellowstone Park--Geysers in the Upper Basin--